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Introductory Note to Irenæus Against Heresies
[2866] Referring to the last of the twelve Æons.
[2868] Meaning the Æon who left the Duodecad, when eleven remained, and not referring to the lost sheep of the parable.
[2869] Harvey gives the above paraphrase of the very obscure original; others propose to read λ´ instead of λόγου.
[2870] Massuet explains this and the following reference, by remarking that the ancients used the fingers of the hand in counting; by the left hand they indicated all the numbers below a hundred, but by the right hand all above that sum.—Comp. Juvenal, Sat., x. 249.
[2874] The Demiurge being the fruit of the abortive conversion of the abortive passion of Achamoth, who, again, was the abortive issue of Sophia.
[2875] i.e., by aiming at what transcends their ability, they fall into absurdity, as a bow is broken by bending it too far.
[2877] Such is the translation which Harvey, following the text preserved by Hippolytus, gives of the above intricate and obscure sentence.
[2878] Literally, “is adorned with.”
Chapter XVIII.—Passages from Moses, which the heretics pervert to the support of their hypothesis.
[2881] One of the senses was thus capriciously cancelled by these heretics.
[2882] See above, chap. xiv. 2.
[2883] Or, rather, perhaps “curtains.” Ex. xxvi. 1.
[2885] Gen. vi. 18; 1 Pet. iii. 20.
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